London: Inkululeko Publications, 1974. First edition - Cover article is on South Africa. Also includes Alex La Guma on Alexander Solzhenitsyn, articles on Zimbabwe, African Liberation movements and more. Illustrated with maps, includes book reviews. 127 pp. We have many other issues of this journal available.

London: Inkululeko Publications, 1972. First edition - J. Marks (1903-1972) Memorial issue. Marks was a political activist and trade unionist; he was one of the leaders of the 1952 Defiance Campaign, and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act, although he continued to be active. Also includes articles on the students' fight for freedom in South Africa, the Somali Revolution and more. Illustrated with maps and photographs, includes book reviews. 125 pp. We have many other issues of this journal available.

Johannesburg, SA: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1949. First edition - A slim booklet. Includes a long introduction from the President of the Institute - Mrs A. W. Hoernle - in which she both deplores some of the recent changes, emphasizes that the Institute is multi-racial, but nevertheless committed to remaining non-party political. Two page list of representatives of numerous affiliated organizations. 86 pp.

New York Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects writings by Olive Shreiner, a woman ahead of her time - born to missionary parents in South Africa in 1855, she became an advocate for women's rights, pacificism, and humanitarianism, despised slavery and abhored violence. She achieved literary fame with the 1883 publication of 'The Story Of An African Farm.' Edited and with a long and reflective introduction by Howard Thurman, Black American author, activist and theologian. INSCRIBED by Thurman on the title page and signed as "Howard." Scarce thus. xxxix, 198 pp. ISBN: 06-0680768.

New York Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects writings by Olive Shreiner, a woman ahead of her time - born to missionary parents in South Africa in 1855, she became an advocate for women's rights, pacificism, and humanitarianism, despised slavery and abhored violence. She achieved literary fame with the 1883 publication of 'The Story Of An African Farm.' Edited and with a long and reflective introduction by Howard Thurman, Black American author, activist and theologian. xxxix, 198 pp. ISBN: 06-0680768.

Cambridge, MA: South End Press, (2008). First edition - An account by this award-winning writer, poet, activist and filmmaker of the five years he spent in South Africa and after his return to the United States. Winner of the American Book Award. "Fast-paced, critical, humorous, hilarious at times, 'Incognegro' asks provocative questions about post-Apartheid South Africa and post-civil rights America with all the passion, the drama, and the political clarity of a great autobiography. . .. a multi-layered narrative of a life molded in struggles for human dignity in America and Africa, at once a gripping story of racial politics and a biography of his soul." (Ngugi wa Thiong'o) 489 pp. ISBN: 0-896087832.

New York: St Martin's, (2014). First edition - A highly praised account by a South African who served as Nelson Mandela's prison guard for 12 years, primarily on Robben Island. Among the comments: A story of the most astonishing, unlikely friendship. A must-read. (Mail on Sunday);" "a vivid picture of prison life in South Africa at the time.... [An] extraordinary book. (Publishers Weekly) and A perfect example of how it is possible for love to triumph over everything, for respect to triumph over everything. (Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela.) 272 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel - after years of living a comfortable middle class life in the US, Michael Dorstiger is suddenly called back to South Africa - where he was born - after the death of his father, only to discover a world very different from the childhood he remembered - and he grudgingly finds himself escorting a black fugitive to a meeting place on the coast. 300 pp.

New York: Norton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'Politics in Ex-British Africa.' A title in the Comparative Modern Governments series. Suggestions for further reading, index. Map. xx, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-393055167.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1970). Hardcover first edition - An account of the scramble during the 19th century by European countries for control in Africa, with an emphasis on South Africa where the struggle was the sharpest and the stakes highest. Includes a table of principal events in South Africa, illustrated with photographs and maps, bibliography, index. 454 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-094569509.

New York: Henry Holt, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this South African writer, a thriller set against a Capetown of gang violence, crime and corruption. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0805088755.

New York: The Viking Press, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen short stories, all but three set in Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-670435708.

Lovedale, South Africa: Published in the Book Department, 1888. Hardcover - Uncommon second edition of this early work on South African indigenous medicine, which was first published in 1885. The preface notes that although there is still work to be done, the first edition has been sold out, and so a new edition was appropriate, Among the Native contributors who are acknowledged in the preface is W. W. Gqoba and the students of Lovedale. Includes indices of the botanical, Kaffir, English and Dutch names of the plants. viii, 163 pp. plus errata.

New York: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of four short novels by this Nobel award winning author, set in her native South Africa, each of which explores different aspects of the human condition. In addition to the title story, this includes "Victoria and the Staveneys", "The Reason for It" and "A Love Child." 311 pp. ISBN: 0-060530103.

London: Thornton Butterworth, Limited, (1928). Hardcover first edition - Accounts based on the diaries she kept (to win a bit with her sister) on three journeys to East Africa, including Zanzibar and Uganda in 1901, to South Africa in 1919 and to Canada and America in 1920. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 17 internal plates. Index. xv, 286 pp.

London: Penguin, (1986). A biography of Mandela written while he was still imprisoned in South Africa - it describes his childhood in the royal family of the Thembu people to his membership and eventual leadership of the African National Congress. Illustrated with photographs, index. 269 pp. plus publisher's ads. Cover photo by Michael Peto. ISBN: 0-140089411.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.

London: Adam and Charles Black, (1965). Hardcover - Later printing of a book originally published in 1934. The Great Trek was the journey undertaken in South Africa in the late 1830s and 1840s of Afrikander sheep and cattle farmers from the frontier districts of the Cape Colony to Natal the Orange Free State and Transvaal. A title in The Pioneer Histories series. Illustrated with four plates, 3 maps, including 2 folding map.Index vii, 389 pp.

New York: Scribner's, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in South Africa, by this noted South African writer, a founder of the Liberal Party there. This covers the years from 1952-1958 and includes both real and fictitious characters who were involved in the fight against apartheid. 271 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-684173360.

Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A candid account of pioneering in the dying days of the African frontier. While the letters tell of adventure and hardship, they also reveal the disregard for, and the ignorance of the culture and traditions of the indigenous people of South Africa. Photographs, index. xxvii, 300 pp. ISBN: 1-879373661.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.

New York: Negro Universities Press . (1969). Hardcover - A work originally published in wrappers in 1926. Introduction by Edwin W. Smith who calls the problem one of "appalling complexity." Includes chapters on Race integrity and equality of opportunity, Intermarriage and Territorial segregation. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-837124411.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of his autobiography: this begins when he arrives in the US as an 18 year old college student on a tennis scholarship - and it recounts his coming of age in a country overwhelmingly in its immensity, luxuriousness, poverty and despair - and not free from racism. Photographs. Index. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-684190435.